# Feed Autodiscovery

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/rss/feed-autodiscovery/  
**Provider:** RSS — https://apis.io/providers/rss/  
**Documentation:** https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery

Feed Autodiscovery is one of 6 APIs that [RSS](https://apis.io/providers/rss/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Autodiscovery, HTML, Syndication, and Discovery. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Feed autodiscovery is the HTML convention by which a web page advertises the location of its RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed using a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="..."> element in the document head. Feed readers, browsers, and crawlers look for this element to discover feeds from a homepage URL alone, without requiring the user to know the exact feed path. The same pattern is used with application/atom+xml and application/feed+json types.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rss/refs/heads/main/examples/feed-autodiscovery-example.json

## Other RSS APIs (5)

- [RSS 2.0](https://apis.io/apis/rss/rss-2-0/)
- [Atom 1.0](https://apis.io/apis/rss/atom-1-0/)
- [JSON Feed 1.1](https://apis.io/apis/rss/json-feed-1-1/)
- [RSS Best Practices Profile](https://apis.io/apis/rss/rss-best-practices-profile/)
- [OPML 2.0](https://apis.io/apis/rss/opml-2-0/)

## Tags

Autodiscovery, HTML, Syndication, Discovery

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